Eileen Wingard

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Eileen Wingard, a retired violinist with the San Diego Symphony, is a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.

7 Concertmasters from Throughout USA Perform at Mainly Mozart Concert

Seven concertmasters, from the Mainly Mozart Orchestra, composed mostly of principal players from orchestras around the country, performed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Seasons from the two works were played alternately. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors

‘Elijah,’ Mendelssohn’s Oratorio, Impressive in La Jolla

The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, under the direction of Chorus Director, Arian Khaefi, delivered an impressive reading of Felix Mendelssohn’s Oratorio, Elijah, in the final program of their 2024-25 season at Mandeville Hall on June 8. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Soloists, Chorus, and Choir Shine in Mahler’s ‘Ode to Nature’

Mahler’s Third Symphony, An Ode to Nature, opened with a cloudburst of sound as eight horns intoned the opening theme in faultless unison. This longest of symphonies,100 minutes in duration, with six movements, never lost momentum under the energetic conducting of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, Rafael Payare. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Shavuot Program at JCC Features Rabbi/ Cantor Hanan Leberman

For the Treasures from the Music Collection: Shavuot Music program Thursday afternoon, June 5, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, I will have as my special guest, Rabbi/Cantor Hanan Leberman, the newly appointed spiritual leader of Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue. He will not only help introduce the program, but will add a few additional songs of Shavuot. The recorded selections will reflect all aspects of this important holiday. [Eileen Wingard]

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Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices Wraps Up Season with 3 Scheduled Readings

The Astor Judaica Library had some 60 people attending the May 4 Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program featuring three published poets, Stewart Florsheim, Simon Patlis and Adam Shames. [Eileen Wingard]

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Soprano Saxophonist Steven Banks Delights SDSO Audience

The ovation for Banks’ expressive playing was such that he returned to the stage for an encore, Sarabande, by Johann Sebastian Bach. It confirmed that this timeless Baroque music was as profoundly beautiful played on an unconventional instrument as on the string instrument for which it was originally written. [Eileen Wingard]

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Beethoven’s ‘Archduke Trio’ Performed by an International Group of Musicians

The German violinist, Anne-Sophie Mutter; the Spanish cellist, Pablo Ferrandez; and the Russian-Israeli pianist, Yefim Bronfman, joined forces to deliver definitive performances of Beethoven’s Archduke Trio and Tchaikovsky’s Trio at the Balboa Theater last Saturday evening. [Eileen Wingard]

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Poets Florsheim, Patlis, and Shames to Read Their Works May 6 at JCC

Stewart Florsheim, son of a Holocaust survivor; Simon Patlis, immigrant from the former Soviet Union; and Adam Shames, Chicago native, will be the three featured poets for the Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 6, in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. [Eileen Wingard]

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Pathetique Symphony Dedicated to the Memory of Lee Amos, the Wife of TICO’s Founding Conductor David Amos

Particularly moving were the passionate melodies in the first violins, the section Lee once led, when the orchestra was first formed, over half a century ago, in the old 54th Street JCC. She was the competent concert master of the fledgling ensemble and she also soloed with them during their early years. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ‘s Performance Demonstrates Why It’s Israel’s Goodwill Ambassador to the World

Lahav Shani, the tall, young Israeli conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), came on stage with confident stride and mounted the podium at the Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa for the final program of the IPO’s USA tour. This March 26 concert was preceded by appearances in New York City, Miami, Palm Beach, San Francisco and Los Angeles. [Eileen Wingard]

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Guest Conductor Pintscher, Violin Soloist Kenny Team in Successful SDSO Concert

Waiting until the hall was pin-drop silent, German guest conductor for the March 6 concert, Matthias Pintscher, quietly signaled the San Diego Symphony Orchestra to begin sounding the impressionist magic of Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. [Eileen Wingard]

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Four Local Poets/ Musicians to Be Featured at JCC on March 4

The featured presenters will be Poet Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel of Temple Beth Shalom in Chula Vista, Song writers Aaron and Milo Wolpoff of Congregation Ohr Shalom, and Poet Rebecca Leeman, student at Torah Hich School. [Eileen Wingard]

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